1. Evaluation and SDGs for a Sustainable and Equitable Development Marco Segone Director, UN Women Independent Evaluation Office Co-chair, EvalPartners Chair, United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG)

2. Our journey together in the next 20’ 1.The world we have vs the world we want 2.Equitable development: what, why, how and … a good news! 3.The challenge for the evaluation community 4.The best way forward …

3. The world we have vs the world we want

4. A massive concentration of wealth The richest 1% of the population owns 40% of the world’s wealth, while the poorest 50% of the population owns only 1% of the world’s wealth The world’s three richest people own wealth equivalent to the combined GDP of the world’s poorest 48 countries.

5. Development is unfinished business 925 m people are still malnourished 1 in 3 women will be beaten, raped, abused, or mutilated in their lifetimes

6. OVERWHELMINGLY, IT’S THE POOR WHO SUFFER

7. Equitable development for equitable societies

8. Final aim All rights for all human beings everywhere at any time, by prioritizing the most deprived

10. Equity: a strategy to achieve equality Different treatment for different situation … … to ensure everybody can enjoy the same rights

11. FROM THIS …

12. Source:, Rob Mcqueary, 2013 … TO THIS

13. Good news! Several countries recognize the importance of equitable development International development community too Social equity and gender equality will be mainstreamed in the Sustainable Development Goals (universal; comprehensive and integrated; inclusive; focus on gender and social inequalities)

14. The challenge for the evaluation community

15. How to evaluate equitable development interventions? What are the evaluation questions to assess interventions are relevant and are having an impact in decreasing inequity and are achieving results for the worst-off groups? What are the methodological, political, social and financial implications in designing, conducting, managing and using evaluations responsive to social equity and gender equality? How to strengthen the capacities of Governments, CSOs and Parliamentarians to evaluate the effect of interventions on equitable outcomes for marginalized populations?

16. The power of equity- focused and gender- responsive evaluation

18. UNICEFType your title in this FOOTER area and in CAPS

19. An assessment made of the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of interventions on equitable development results, with a specific focus on gender equality and women’s human rights. Looks at structural bottlenecks and power relationships Empowerment process What is Gender responsive evaluation?

20. Would you recommend this policy to be continued?

22. The best way forward …

23. 2015 declared International Year of Evaluation (EvalYear)

24. a Global Initiative of Coordinated Local Action advocate and promote demand and use of evaluation in evidence-based policy making position evaluation in the policy arena

25. Why 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) National development policies should be informed by evidence generated by country-led evaluation systems, rather than donor-led ones

26. January 2012 UNICEF/ IOCE Board Meeting March 2012 : EvalPartners Launch July 2012: Launch of e- Learning Programme on Development Evaluation: 4.500 registered participants from 162 countries December 2012 - International Forum of Civil Society Evaluation Capacity Building Strategies 2015 – International Year of Evaluation EvalYear journey

27. January 2012 UNICEF/ IOCE Board Meeting March 2012 : EvalPartners Launch + mapping December 2012: Global EvalPartners Forum decided to have an Advocacy strategy December 2012 - International Forum of Civil Society Evaluation Capacity Building Strategies 2015 – International Year of Evaluation EvalYear journey

28. January 2012 UNICEF/ IOCE Board Meeting March 2012 : EvalPartners Launch + mapping February 2013: EvalPartners decides to declare 2015 EvalYear December 2012 - International Forum of Civil Society Evaluation Capacity Building Strategies 2015 – International Year of Evaluation EvalYear journey

29. January 2012 UNICEF/ IOCE Board Meeting March 2012 : EvalPartners Launch + mapping July 2012: Launch of e- Learning Programme on Development Evaluation: 4.500 registered participants from 162 countries November 2014: EvalYear officially declared at NEC Conference in Brazil 2015 – International Year of Evaluation EvalYear journey

30. January 2012 UNICEF/ IOCE Board Meeting March 2012 : EvalPartners Launch + mapping July 2012: Launch of e- Learning Programme on Development Evaluation: 4.500 registered participants from 162 countries December 2014: UN General Assembly Resolution 2015 – International Year of Evaluation EvalYear journey

31. January 2012 UNICEF/ IOCE Board Meeting March 2012 : EvalPartners Launch + mapping July 2012: Launch of e- Learning Programme on Development Evaluation: 4.500 registered participants from 162 countries January 2015: Evaluation Torch lighted at UN Building in NYC 2015 – International Year of Evaluation EvalYear journey

32. January 2012 UNICEF/ IOCE Board Meeting March 2012 : EvalPartners Launch + mapping July 2012: Launch of e- Learning Programme on Development Evaluation: 4.500 registered participants from 162 countries April 2015: UN Secretary General lighted Evaluation Torch at UNEG Evaluation Week 2015 – International Year of Evaluation EvalYear journey

33. Countries Joining EvalYear Events

34. From Ministers in developed countries …

35. … and in emerging and developing countries ……

36. … to young evaluators.

37. Evaluation Torch Themes 2016-2020 Global Evaluation Agenda, including mainstreaming equity-focused and gender-responsive; Bridging the gap between the evaluation community (supply side) and the policy makers community (demand side); Mainstreaming evaluations in Sustainable Development Goals at international level, and in national development strategies at national level; Developing National Evaluation Policies.

38. Global Evaluation Week EvalPartners, under the leadership of IOCE and UN Women Government of Nepal Parliament of Nepal Parliamentarians Forum for Development Evaluation UNEG

39. Launching Future Agenda The Global Parliamentarian Forum for Evaluation EvalGender+ EvalYouth EvalSDG Global Evaluation Agenda for 2016-2020

40. After 33, on the way to 67, there is 34 …IPDET!

41. Evaluation: an agent of change for the world we want